Daily Current Affairs 5 October 2026

The 5 October 2026 edition leads with the Agnipath review, as the Services send the Department of Military Affairs their suggestions for the scheme while the first Agniveers near the end of their four-year term; the National Supercomputing Mission, which has deployed 40 supercomputers with 68 petaflops against a target of 50 systems and more than 123 petaflops; PM-SETU at one year, with 850 ITIs identified for industry-led hub-and-spoke clusters; and a methanol consignment from Dibrugarh to Dhaka scheduled to sail on National Waterway-2 and the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route.

The roundup covers Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Article 326 and the Election Commission’s new ERONET options for SIR notices, the GST Council meeting on 7 October, the sixth Positive Indigenisation List, Jaishankar at the Munich Leaders Meeting, the Swiss President’s state visit, India’s Asian Games finish, World Habitat Day and World Teachers’ Day, a proposed coal mine near Ramappa Temple, the Supreme Court’s suo motu case on the Central Secretariat Library, Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi, the pre-COP in Fiji and Tuvalu, Brazil’s election and the Cotton Reform Utsav. Eight editorials, five from The Hindu and three from The Indian Express, take up the three-language policy and English, the US exit from Iraq, the ECI’s constitutional mandate and the SIR, the US National Defense Strategy and India, regulation of higher education and the VBSA Bill, rising global bond yields, the India-US trade deal, and Trinath Mishra and police integrity, alongside a practice quiz.